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Conference Schedule


Thursday and Friday, December 2 and 3, 2010
9:15 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Museum Lecture Hall, The Getty Center
Admission is free. Reservations required for each day.




Day One: Thursday, December 2, 2010

9:15 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Museum Lecture Hall, The Getty Center



8:30 a.m.
Check-in and Coffee

9:15 a.m.
Display: Changing the Question
Gail Feigenbaum, Getty Research Institute

9:45 a.m. Session I: Architecture

Moderator: Gail Feigenbaum

The Architecture of Display
Patricia Waddy, Syracuse University

Architecture as Display
Elisabeth Kieven, Bibliotheca Hertziana—Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome

11:10 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:20 a.m. Session II: Rank and Display

Moderator: Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute

Rank and Display
Renata Ago, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Lesser Nobility and Middle Ranks
Patrizia Cavazzini, Independent Scholar, Rome

Rank and Display: Papal Nephews' Models of Display and Personal Taste, 1600–1650
Francesca Cappelletti, Università degli Studi di Ferrara

1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break

2:30 p.m. Session III: Circuitry of Display: Desire, Production, Use, Storage, Dispersal

Moderator: Michel Hochmann, École Pratique des Hautes Études, and Getty Research Institute Scholar

Creating Intimacy through the Display of Art in Seicento Roman Palaces
Frances Gage, Buffalo State College, State University of New York

Display in Motion: Considerations on the Mobility of Goods in Early Modern Rome
Barbara Furlotti, Independent Scholar, Mantua

3:40 p.m.
Coffee Break

4:00 p.m.
Between Public and Private: The Display of Drawings in Roman Palaces
Mario Epifani, Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici del Piemonte

What's on Display? Art, Patronage, and Visitors in Early Modern Roman Palaces
Carole Paul, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Getty Research Institute Scholar


Day Two: Friday, December 3, 2010

9:15 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Museum Lecture Hall, The Getty Center



8:30 a.m.
Check-in and Coffee

9:15 a.m. Session IV: Ideas of Order and Reconstructing Display

Moderator: Antonia Boström, J. Paul Getty Museum

Trends and Turning Points in Early Modern Gallery Design in Rome
Christina Strunck, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Libraries and Display of Knowledge
Caterina Volpi, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Arcadia as Display and Notes on the Inventories and Display Project at La Sapienza
Maria Celeste Cola, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. Session V: Unification of Interiors

Moderator: Jeffrey Collins, Bard Graduate Center, and Getty Research Institute Scholar

Fresco Decoration of the Palazzo Quirinale under Paul V
Rossella Vodret, Polo Museale, Rome

Textile Spaces, Exterior and Interior
Tristan Weddigen, Universität Zürich

Fashioning the Interior: Stucco Decorations in Roman Palaces
Francesco Freddolini, Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break

2:30 p.m. Session VI: Objects on Display

Moderator: Catherine Hess, The Huntington Art Collections

Furnishings, Objects, and the Designed Interior
Stefanie Walker, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.

From Facade to Chapel: Social Display, Erudition, and Piety in Collecting Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Rome
Ingo Herklotz, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Display of Sculpture in the Home of the Roman Antiquario Giovanni Battista Mancini, 1733
Anne-Lise Desmas, J. Paul Getty Museum

4:30 p.m.
Concluding Discussion